Kitchen-reminder.



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KITCHEN REMINDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 23, 1908 Patented Mar. 2, 1909.

Tun NORRIS PETERS co.. WASHINGTON. o. c.

SSIGNOR TO J. G. MACOUNE, OF MINNEAPOLIS,

OLAF ROED, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, A

prion MINNESOTA.

KITCHEN-REMINDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 2, 1909.

Application filed March 23, 1908. Serial No. 422,66.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OLAF Rom), of Minneapolis, Hennepin county,Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inKitchen-Reminders, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a device adapted to be hungupon the wall, and by means of which the person in charge of purchasingsupplies for the household can determine at a glance whether certainarticles should be ordered or not, devices being provided, capable ofadjustment to indicate when the different supplies are exhausted.

The invention consists generally in various constructions andcombinations, all as hereinafter described and particularly pointed outin the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure1 is front view of a kitchen reminder embodying my invention. Fig. 2 isa detail view of the same. Fig. 3 is a sectional view illustrating themanner of mounting the indicators in the reminder.

In the drawing, 2 represents the plate bearing the indicating devices,having a hole 3 at its upper end to adapt the device for hanging on thewall. The plate is preferably composed of a double thickness ofcardboard, as indicated in Fig. 3, the sheets being secured together byany suitable means and provided with holes 4 in which balls 5, sucn asbeads or marbles are suspended on wires 6 that are embedded between thesheets composing the late, and form the axes on which the be S rotate.These balls have their surfaces provided with differently colored areas,one side of a ball being light, for instance, and the other red, so thatwhen the ball is turned with the red or colored side visible the personin charge of purchasing supplies will be re minded that the article inthe blank space 7 opposite the colored ball, is exhausted and that afresh su ply should be ordered. Each ball is opera le independently ofall the others and as many of them may be mounted on the card asdesired.

I have shown four columns for the supplies and the different articlesmay be grouped therein or alphabetically arranged, if preferred. When anarticle has been ordered the ball opposite the name of the article willbe revolved until its light or uncolored surface is visible. Thereuponit will be under stood that there is a full supply of the article onhand.

The card may be suitably ornamented by a drawing or lithograph, and inthe central portion thereofa thermometer and a surface for scratchingmatches may be provided.

As indicated in Fig. 3 the balls project through the front and back ofthe card and are visible on both sides, my purpose being to utilize theback of the card as well as the front for a list of household articles.In using the card directions will be given to revolve the ballsso thattwo colors will be visible from the front and then it will be understoodthat an article listed on the back of the card is needed.

In addition to the list of articles on the back of the card I mayprovide fortune telling paragraphs, suitable reference being madethereto by numbers or marks on the front of the card.

I claim as my invention:

1. A kitchen reminder comprising a card bearing the names of articles ofhousehold use, and a series of balls mounted to revolve in said card,each ball having its surface provided with differently colored areas,one color indicating a supply of the article on hand and the other thatthe supply is eX- hausted.

2. A kitchen reminder comprising a card having spaces thereon for thenames of articles of household use, said card being com posed of frontand back sheets and wires em bedded therein, and said card having aseries of holes intersected by said wires, and beads mounted on saidwires in said holes and capable of revolution therein independently ofone another and said beads having surfaces with differently coloredareas thereon, for the purpose specified.

3. A kitchen reminder comprising a card bearing the names of articles ofhousehold use and a series of balls mounted in said card 0 posite thenames of said articles respec tively, said balls projecting throughholes in said card and having a rotary movement only therein and havingsurfaces With differhaving surfaces With dilferently colored entlycolored areas. areas thereon for the purpose specified.

4. A kitchen reminder, comprising a card In Witness whereof I havehereunto set my independently of one another and said balls 10 havingspaces thereon for the names of artihand this 14th day of March 1908cles of household use, said card having a se- OLAF ROED. ries of holestherein, and Wires intersecting lVitnesses: said holes, balls mounted onsaid Wires in J. A. BYINGTON,

said holes, and capable of revolution therein 0. G. HANSON.

